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Source 1: CBS
Source 2: The Channel Register
Bill Gates, please come back. Your vacuum cleaner salesman is doing his usual number, but this time you're not around with a sensible voice to balance things out.
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(ZDNET) Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer predicts that more than 500 million people will be using Windows 8 by the end of next year, AFP reports.
Ballmer, who was speaking at a forum in Seoul, South Korea, also expects Windows 7 to hit the 350 million device milestone later this year.
Ballmer, who was speaking at a forum in Seoul, South Korea, also expects Windows 7 to hit the 350 million device milestone later this year.
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Last week, BMO analysts cut Hewlett-Packard and Dell's price targets, after one of its analysts claimed that "Windows 8 will prove to be a disappointment, at least out of the gate." Analysts do not think that Windows 8 will be as successful as Windows 7 was and continues to be, and that PC sales could suffer as a result.
The Channel Register:
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That brings us on to numbers. If Ballmer is talking units for Windows 8 next year, then 500 million is about 40 per cent more than Microsoft expects to ship using the "dated and cheesy" Windows 7 this year. Ballmer said he expects 350 million PCs running Windows 7 to sell this year.
That 350 million is about flat compared to 2011, based on IDC numbers: 352.4 million PCs were shipped last year - a 1.6 per cent increase over 2010 - IDC has said.
With Windows PCs looking flat this year, and let's assume next year given there's very little indication the global economy is going anywhere good with a looming Grexit, then Microsoft's number crunchers are banking on Windows 8 getting a lift from tablets and, particularly, Apple's iPad.
Can Windows 8 tablets deliver?
Hard to say. So far we know very little about the coming slabs. The majority look like being Intel-based x86 machines with a handful, about five models, expected on ARM and likely to be readers. Forty per cent is a huge pair of shoes to fill for feet so young and untested.
Microsoft's certainly not making things easy for itself, by throwing hurdles in front of application partners who've made Windows a success in the past and end users familiar with the PC experience and with existing apps to port.
That 350 million is about flat compared to 2011, based on IDC numbers: 352.4 million PCs were shipped last year - a 1.6 per cent increase over 2010 - IDC has said.
With Windows PCs looking flat this year, and let's assume next year given there's very little indication the global economy is going anywhere good with a looming Grexit, then Microsoft's number crunchers are banking on Windows 8 getting a lift from tablets and, particularly, Apple's iPad.
Can Windows 8 tablets deliver?
Hard to say. So far we know very little about the coming slabs. The majority look like being Intel-based x86 machines with a handful, about five models, expected on ARM and likely to be readers. Forty per cent is a huge pair of shoes to fill for feet so young and untested.
Microsoft's certainly not making things easy for itself, by throwing hurdles in front of application partners who've made Windows a success in the past and end users familiar with the PC experience and with existing apps to port.
Source 1: CBS
Source 2: The Channel Register
Bill Gates, please come back. Your vacuum cleaner salesman is doing his usual number, but this time you're not around with a sensible voice to balance things out.
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